Bitcoins are no different then Disney dollars, you can use them to buy certain goods but at the end of the day you still need real currency. The electric company will not take Disney Dollars, alternative currency will always have this problem.
I don't know where you live, but nurses are still in high demand. Two of my friends recently got nursing degrees one had a job within a week the other who did not work nights because she has a son took 1 month to find a job that fit her schedule. One month was a very long time as everyone else she graduated with had a job all ready. The unemployment rate for nurses is 2.2% that is one of the best rates for any career field.
What the GP is saying is that many banks will issue refunds immediately for fraudulent purchases, and will remove any overdrafts fees if any occurred. In my experience that is how banks work, legally they are not obligated to do so but do so to keep their customers happy. I don't use my debt card for purchases due to the risks but have not heard of any body getting told by the bank that it's not the banks responsibility. Further any overdrafts that occurred from the fraudulent charges will not be assessed because of how they occurred.
Lets look at this from an economical point, if Google pays it's programmers 60-80k to find bugs in it's software with benefits and other overhead costs included that employee costs 150-240k a year that's 8-12 bugs a year for the employee to be cost effective.
The difference between teaching the test and not doing standardized testing is that now we teach the test, instead of nothing at all. If the students game the robo-grader, they've learned *something*. Standardized testing is a bad answer to a problem that's so bad that every other approach we've tried has failed. The real solution is to make parents care. However, punishment is highly unlikely to work, and we really, really shouldn't have the government trying any other approaches (propoganda is bad, government propaganda is worse).
Give me a better solution. I reject your "more money" approach; it's been demosntrated over the last 50 years to be a national scale disaster.
The solution is simple remove the kids that don't care, it seems harsh but they are the reason classrooms get stuck in a quagmire. Offer an education to everyone but do not force it on people that don't want it and will waste people's time that do want it. The the true secret of private schools is that everyone there has parents that value education and for the most part they do too. Once disruptive and unmotivated students are removed from the class the teachers can be held accountable for their classrooms, and are typically motivated because the students genuinely care.
Their athletics program makes money, not from ticket sales but from donations and ticket sales. When a school wins a national championship or two they get many more alumni opening their wallets. Schools have a very good idea of how much money their sports programs bring in and they spend accordingly. The best way to save UF CS department is to get donations from CS alumni or to make donations directly to the CS department.
Studies suggest that one of the defining characteristics being used by boards to select CEOs in in fact height--Yes, how "tall" someone is. I imagine other factors such as hairstyle, teeth, and charm are being applied as well because I see no other reason for the modern day plague of vapid and incompetent CEOs, and the associated layers of equally useless senior managers.
The problem is not restricted to management either. Boards too seem to have become saturated with unqualified socialites, often from unrelated industries or even unrelated fields like academia, selected for personal or political connections rather than for any actually relevant competencies.
Um NO the studies don't suggest that a CEO is selected because of his height correlation != causation. It could be that tall people are biased into a leadership role by society giving them more confidence to be leaders and thus succeed, but the study in no way implies boards choose the tall guy over the short guy. Political connections are worth a lot to companies securing loans, tax incentives, government contracts,... all are much easier with political contacts, It's no coincidence that Michael Obama went from a 100k salary to 300k salary right after her husband became a Senator, and her position went unfilled after she left.
To be fair to GE they don't make much of the crap they sell, they just give another manufacture the specs an put a GE sticker on it. I found this out after my GE water heater crapped out 4 months before the warranty was up and the warranty was through rheem, rheem actually has higher standards for the water heaters they put their stickers on.
Did you read any of the post you are commenting on he said his power company is not subsidizing the $60 Philips led, no electric companies currently are.
It's not that the latest technology is expensive it's that the light-bulb won $10million and one of the requirements was that the bulb cost consumers $22. The best excuse they could come up with was we were planning on their light-bulb being heavily subsidized which is the reason for the high price.
Just about every drug has been tested on animals, Tylenol, Aspirin,... I am not familiar with the FDA approval process for a drug but am fairly sure that animal testing is the only way to gain approval. There might be a way to gain approval to start human testing without animal testing first but I seriously doubt it. If you take any FDA approved drugs then you are using medicine that was tested on animals.
Advertising like the stuff Add-block handles or commercials that are skipped over? Word of mouth is all that is left, and as another plus your employer has directed you in a memo to use social networking sites at work. Now hours of no productivity can be directly attributed to a memo instructing you to do so.
Honestly I would prepare to leave the company not because of some moral code but for much simpler reasons. If you main revenue stream is selling apps and you are not selling them then the next shoe to fall is layoffs.
The only mistake was that the Today show miscalculated the reaction to their editing, when they tried to push their agenda instead of reporting the truth. Many news outlets have tried to make this a race issue, claiming an innocent young black man was hunted down by a WHITE hispanic and shot. Many of the facts have proven that this narrative is wrong yet little to no retraction has happened, at best NBC was trying to sensationalist the story, at worst they were pushing a narrative about racist America and were trying to hide the evidence to the contrary.
I wonder how many Chinese are aware of Tienanmen Square? I remember access to that information being blocked, so it's tough to say how many Chinese are aware of the event. Remember it's not the well educated that have a good life that are going to start the uprising it's the ones who have nothing to lose, those are the ones that are not as informed and the propaganda is targeting.
Don't use a cell phone to file the complaint, filing the complaint will cause the officer to do more paperwork which will annoy him and as a cell phone is a digital device you would be in violation of the law.
If the predator says I'm going to be in town we should meet IRL, and the undercover gives him a hotel room it's not entrapment, if the predator asks the undercover to meet at a certain hotel and the undercover gets him to go to a different one it's not entrapment. What is entrapment is if the undercover contacts the predator and steers the conversation to an inappropriate topic, then begs the person to meet them IRL. To be entrapped you have to show that you had no intention of committing the crime until you were contacted by the undercover, then the undercover coaxed you into wanting to commit that crime, BOTH of these conditions must be met to be entrapped. You believe that then undercover would delete a piece of evidence that can be retrieved from the cellular provider with great ease, or are the cell phone companies in on the conspiracy too.
Education major students must be the bottom of the barrel if they are only allowed to take 15 hours, in my engineering undergrad I only had one semester where I took less then 16 hours which was my last semester. Secondly the 25 hours exclusively for the minor is a bit off only part of those typically 8 can not be overlapped so it is very easy to add them into you curriculum, thirdly the student teaching requirements usually can be met while taking a smaller load 10 hours, typically it takes 5 years for an education major to graduate but doing it in 4 is not impossible, my wife was able to do it in 4.5. I'm sorry that getting your education degree is hard on you but most people handle it much better then you, having a temper-tantrum because you feel you worked real hard to get one of the easiest degrees doesn't mean you're entitled to a real salary. Try getting a degree in a field where nearly all the students don't graduate with honors, then work year round for your salary and we'll talk.
Most charter schools have a lottery that they use to select the students so there is no selecting better students, the difference between charter schools and public schools is when charter schools do poorly they get their charter revoked, when public schools do they get more money.
It has EVERYTHING to do with money. We pay teachers shit wages. What other group of college educated people make so litlle money? And it shows. When I was in public school I had three good teachers, almost all the rest were beyond incompetent. Things didn't change much when my kids went to school.
Pay decent teachers salaries and you'll get quality teachers. Don't expect to find a Filet Mignon at McDonalds.
Paying teachers more is not the answer, making it harder for those teachers to earn a degree might show results, when I graduated from my undergrad 80% of the education students were on the dean's list, in my CS class of 30 we had one, the bar is pretty low to teach our children. Most private schools in my area pay teachers less then their unionized public school peers, yet they get better results. Most private schools usually have textbooks that get replaced every 10 years while in public schools it's every 5. Most private schools have much smaller budgets for computers and other interactive learning equipment. Private schools routinely do better for two very simple reasons, one and most important when the parents are paying for school for the child they typically value education more then public school parents, the child sees this and is influenced by it. Secondly disruptive children are removed making a much better environment for all students. Money is not the problem our desire to try to educate everyone is, the people that do not want an education should be left behind.
Your NAMBLA logic fails you once you understand what entrapment truly is. An adult sending sexually explicit text messages to a person posing to be a minor is not entrapment. An adult going over to what they think is a minor's residence with the intent of molesting the minor is not entrapment. It becomes entrapment if the fake minor steers the conversation to an inappropriate conversation.
A person is 'entrapped' when he is induced or persuaded by law enforcement officers or their agents to commit a crime that he had no previous intent to commit; and the law as a matter of policy forbids conviction in such a case.
However, there is no entrapment where a person is ready and willing to break the law and the Government agents merely provide what appears to be a favorable opportunity for the person to commit the crime. For example, it is not entrapment for a Government agent to pretend to be someone else and to offer, either directly or through an informer or other decoy, to engage in an unlawful transaction with the person. So, a person would not be a victim of entrapment if the person was ready, willing and able to commit the crime charged in the indictment whenever opportunity was afforded, and that Government officers or their agents did no more than offer an opportunity.
On the other hand, if the evidence leaves a reasonable doubt whether the person had any intent to commit the crime except for inducement or persuasion on the part of some Government officer or agent, then the person is not guilty.
In slightly different words: Even though someone may have [sold drugs], as charged by the government, if it was the result of entrapment then he is not guilty. Government agents entrapped him if three things occurred:
- First, the idea for committing the crime came from the government agents and not from the person accused of the crime.
- Second, the government agents then persuaded or talked the person into committing the crime. Simply giving him the opportunity to commit the crime is not the same as persuading him to commit the crime.
- And third, the person was not ready and willing to commit the crime before the government agents spoke with him.
On the issue of entrapment the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not entrapped by government agents.
I drink coffee all day long because I have found that not only do executives not like it when we fall asleep in thier early morning meetings, they don't like it in the late afternoon meetings either... or any other meetings as far as I can tell.
I would love such a drink. I'm extremely sensitive to caffeine, but I enjoy coffee quite a bit. In fact, the stuff is more likely to put me to sleep than keep me awake, so I tend to enjoy coffee after some dinners rather than early or during the day. Occasionally I have a cup of decaf during the day. If this coffee becomes available I'd drink it much more frequently than I drink coffee now.
I've heard of others like myself, though I doubt we're a particularly large portion of the population, so we are probably not a major reason for this research. Still, why are you so against people having a less processed low-caffeine option? And how is railing against such a possibility with zero facts or specific arguments in any way insightful?
You might have ADHD, caffeine has been shown to treat the effects of ADHD, many people with ADHD claim that drinking coffee before bead calms them down and they fall asleep much easier.
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Would it still be racist if the movie was filmed in Japan and everyone in the movie was Japanese?
All Japanese movies are required by law to have Godzilla in them and thus everyone would not be Japanese.
Bitcoins are no different then Disney dollars, you can use them to buy certain goods but at the end of the day you still need real currency. The electric company will not take Disney Dollars, alternative currency will always have this problem.
I don't know where you live, but nurses are still in high demand. Two of my friends recently got nursing degrees one had a job within a week the other who did not work nights because she has a son took 1 month to find a job that fit her schedule. One month was a very long time as everyone else she graduated with had a job all ready. The unemployment rate for nurses is 2.2% that is one of the best rates for any career field.
What the GP is saying is that many banks will issue refunds immediately for fraudulent purchases, and will remove any overdrafts fees if any occurred. In my experience that is how banks work, legally they are not obligated to do so but do so to keep their customers happy. I don't use my debt card for purchases due to the risks but have not heard of any body getting told by the bank that it's not the banks responsibility. Further any overdrafts that occurred from the fraudulent charges will not be assessed because of how they occurred.
Lets look at this from an economical point, if Google pays it's programmers 60-80k to find bugs in it's software with benefits and other overhead costs included that employee costs 150-240k a year that's 8-12 bugs a year for the employee to be cost effective.
The difference between teaching the test and not doing standardized testing is that now we teach the test, instead of nothing at all. If the students game the robo-grader, they've learned *something*. Standardized testing is a bad answer to a problem that's so bad that every other approach we've tried has failed. The real solution is to make parents care. However, punishment is highly unlikely to work, and we really, really shouldn't have the government trying any other approaches (propoganda is bad, government propaganda is worse).
Give me a better solution. I reject your "more money" approach; it's been demosntrated over the last 50 years to be a national scale disaster.
The solution is simple remove the kids that don't care, it seems harsh but they are the reason classrooms get stuck in a quagmire. Offer an education to everyone but do not force it on people that don't want it and will waste people's time that do want it. The the true secret of private schools is that everyone there has parents that value education and for the most part they do too. Once disruptive and unmotivated students are removed from the class the teachers can be held accountable for their classrooms, and are typically motivated because the students genuinely care.
Their athletics program makes money, not from ticket sales but from donations and ticket sales. When a school wins a national championship or two they get many more alumni opening their wallets. Schools have a very good idea of how much money their sports programs bring in and they spend accordingly. The best way to save UF CS department is to get donations from CS alumni or to make donations directly to the CS department.
The percentage of companies that went bankrupt under Bain Capital is much smaller then the US governments percentage.
Studies suggest that one of the defining characteristics being used by boards to select CEOs in in fact height--Yes, how "tall" someone is. I imagine other factors such as hairstyle, teeth, and charm are being applied as well because I see no other reason for the modern day plague of vapid and incompetent CEOs, and the associated layers of equally useless senior managers.
The problem is not restricted to management either. Boards too seem to have become saturated with unqualified socialites, often from unrelated industries or even unrelated fields like academia, selected for personal or political connections rather than for any actually relevant competencies.
Um NO the studies don't suggest that a CEO is selected because of his height correlation != causation. It could be that tall people are biased into a leadership role by society giving them more confidence to be leaders and thus succeed, but the study in no way implies boards choose the tall guy over the short guy. Political connections are worth a lot to companies securing loans, tax incentives, government contracts, ... all are much easier with political contacts, It's no coincidence that Michael Obama went from a 100k salary to 300k salary right after her husband became a Senator, and her position went unfilled after she left.
To be fair to GE they don't make much of the crap they sell, they just give another manufacture the specs an put a GE sticker on it. I found this out after my GE water heater crapped out 4 months before the warranty was up and the warranty was through rheem, rheem actually has higher standards for the water heaters they put their stickers on.
Did you read any of the post you are commenting on he said his power company is not subsidizing the $60 Philips led, no electric companies currently are.
It's not that the latest technology is expensive it's that the light-bulb won $10million and one of the requirements was that the bulb cost consumers $22. The best excuse they could come up with was we were planning on their light-bulb being heavily subsidized which is the reason for the high price.
Just about every drug has been tested on animals, Tylenol, Aspirin, ... I am not familiar with the FDA approval process for a drug but am fairly sure that animal testing is the only way to gain approval. There might be a way to gain approval to start human testing without animal testing first but I seriously doubt it. If you take any FDA approved drugs then you are using medicine that was tested on animals.
Advertising like the stuff Add-block handles or commercials that are skipped over? Word of mouth is all that is left, and as another plus your employer has directed you in a memo to use social networking sites at work. Now hours of no productivity can be directly attributed to a memo instructing you to do so.
Honestly I would prepare to leave the company not because of some moral code but for much simpler reasons. If you main revenue stream is selling apps and you are not selling them then the next shoe to fall is layoffs.
The only mistake was that the Today show miscalculated the reaction to their editing, when they tried to push their agenda instead of reporting the truth. Many news outlets have tried to make this a race issue, claiming an innocent young black man was hunted down by a WHITE hispanic and shot. Many of the facts have proven that this narrative is wrong yet little to no retraction has happened, at best NBC was trying to sensationalist the story, at worst they were pushing a narrative about racist America and were trying to hide the evidence to the contrary.
I wonder how many Chinese are aware of Tienanmen Square? I remember access to that information being blocked, so it's tough to say how many Chinese are aware of the event. Remember it's not the well educated that have a good life that are going to start the uprising it's the ones who have nothing to lose, those are the ones that are not as informed and the propaganda is targeting.
Don't use a cell phone to file the complaint, filing the complaint will cause the officer to do more paperwork which will annoy him and as a cell phone is a digital device you would be in violation of the law.
You have the right to not be offended, if can not afford to be offended, the court will provide someone to be offended for you.
If the predator says I'm going to be in town we should meet IRL, and the undercover gives him a hotel room it's not entrapment, if the predator asks the undercover to meet at a certain hotel and the undercover gets him to go to a different one it's not entrapment. What is entrapment is if the undercover contacts the predator and steers the conversation to an inappropriate topic, then begs the person to meet them IRL. To be entrapped you have to show that you had no intention of committing the crime until you were contacted by the undercover, then the undercover coaxed you into wanting to commit that crime, BOTH of these conditions must be met to be entrapped. You believe that then undercover would delete a piece of evidence that can be retrieved from the cellular provider with great ease, or are the cell phone companies in on the conspiracy too.
Education major students must be the bottom of the barrel if they are only allowed to take 15 hours, in my engineering undergrad I only had one semester where I took less then 16 hours which was my last semester. Secondly the 25 hours exclusively for the minor is a bit off only part of those typically 8 can not be overlapped so it is very easy to add them into you curriculum, thirdly the student teaching requirements usually can be met while taking a smaller load 10 hours, typically it takes 5 years for an education major to graduate but doing it in 4 is not impossible, my wife was able to do it in 4.5. I'm sorry that getting your education degree is hard on you but most people handle it much better then you, having a temper-tantrum because you feel you worked real hard to get one of the easiest degrees doesn't mean you're entitled to a real salary. Try getting a degree in a field where nearly all the students don't graduate with honors, then work year round for your salary and we'll talk.
Most charter schools have a lottery that they use to select the students so there is no selecting better students, the difference between charter schools and public schools is when charter schools do poorly they get their charter revoked, when public schools do they get more money.
It has EVERYTHING to do with money. We pay teachers shit wages. What other group of college educated people make so litlle money? And it shows. When I was in public school I had three good teachers, almost all the rest were beyond incompetent. Things didn't change much when my kids went to school.
Pay decent teachers salaries and you'll get quality teachers. Don't expect to find a Filet Mignon at McDonalds.
Paying teachers more is not the answer, making it harder for those teachers to earn a degree might show results, when I graduated from my undergrad 80% of the education students were on the dean's list, in my CS class of 30 we had one, the bar is pretty low to teach our children. Most private schools in my area pay teachers less then their unionized public school peers, yet they get better results. Most private schools usually have textbooks that get replaced every 10 years while in public schools it's every 5. Most private schools have much smaller budgets for computers and other interactive learning equipment. Private schools routinely do better for two very simple reasons, one and most important when the parents are paying for school for the child they typically value education more then public school parents, the child sees this and is influenced by it. Secondly disruptive children are removed making a much better environment for all students. Money is not the problem our desire to try to educate everyone is, the people that do not want an education should be left behind.
A person is 'entrapped' when he is induced or persuaded by law enforcement officers or their agents to commit a crime that he had no previous intent to commit; and the law as a matter of policy forbids conviction in such a case.
However, there is no entrapment where a person is ready and willing to break the law and the Government agents merely provide what appears to be a favorable opportunity for the person to commit the crime. For example, it is not entrapment for a Government agent to pretend to be someone else and to offer, either directly or through an informer or other decoy, to engage in an unlawful transaction with the person. So, a person would not be a victim of entrapment if the person was ready, willing and able to commit the crime charged in the indictment whenever opportunity was afforded, and that Government officers or their agents did no more than offer an opportunity.
On the other hand, if the evidence leaves a reasonable doubt whether the person had any intent to commit the crime except for inducement or persuasion on the part of some Government officer or agent, then the person is not guilty.
In slightly different words: Even though someone may have [sold drugs], as charged by the government, if it was the result of entrapment then he is not guilty. Government agents entrapped him if three things occurred:
- First, the idea for committing the crime came from the government agents and not from the person accused of the crime.
- Second, the government agents then persuaded or talked the person into committing the crime. Simply giving him the opportunity to commit the crime is not the same as persuading him to commit the crime.
- And third, the person was not ready and willing to commit the crime before the government agents spoke with him.
On the issue of entrapment the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not entrapped by government agents.
I drink coffee all day long because I have found that not only do executives not like it when we fall asleep in thier early morning meetings, they don't like it in the late afternoon meetings either... or any other meetings as far as I can tell.
That's why you need to have a desk bed.
I would love such a drink. I'm extremely sensitive to caffeine, but I enjoy coffee quite a bit. In fact, the stuff is more likely to put me to sleep than keep me awake, so I tend to enjoy coffee after some dinners rather than early or during the day. Occasionally I have a cup of decaf during the day. If this coffee becomes available I'd drink it much more frequently than I drink coffee now. I've heard of others like myself, though I doubt we're a particularly large portion of the population, so we are probably not a major reason for this research. Still, why are you so against people having a less processed low-caffeine option? And how is railing against such a possibility with zero facts or specific arguments in any way insightful?
You might have ADHD, caffeine has been shown to treat the effects of ADHD, many people with ADHD claim that drinking coffee before bead calms them down and they fall asleep much easier.